{"id":2295,"date":"2026-07-20T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/introduction-devops-tools-and-techniques\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:23:01","slug":"introduction-devops-tools-and-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/introduction-devops-tools-and-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction DevOps: Tools and Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- ktg-updated-banner --><\/p>\n<p><em>Updated August 2026 \u2014 full tutorial restored for this URL.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DevOps<\/strong> is the culture and toolchain that lets development and operations ship software faster with fewer surprises. This post maps the main <strong>tools and techniques<\/strong> you will meet first.<\/p>\n<p>Hands-on follow-ups on this blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/how-to-setup-jenkins-step-by-step-tutorial\/\">Setup Jenkins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/how-to-deploy-spring-boot-application-with-mysql-database-with-docker\/\">Docker + Spring Boot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#t1\">Source control<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#t2\">CI\/CD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#t3\">Containers and orchestration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#t4\">Infrastructure as Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#t5\">Observability<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#t6\">A minimal learning path<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong id=\"t1\">1. Source control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Git<\/strong> + GitHub\/GitLab\/Bitbucket. Techniques: trunk-based or short-lived feature branches, pull requests, protected main branch, conventional commits.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"t2\">2. CI\/CD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continuous Integration runs build\/test on every push. Continuous Delivery\/Deployment promotes artifacts to environments. Tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"t3\">3. Containers and orchestration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Docker<\/strong> packages the app. <strong>Compose<\/strong> runs multi-service stacks locally. <strong>Kubernetes<\/strong> schedules containers at scale. Start with Docker before K8s.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"t4\">4. Infrastructure as Code<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Describe servers\/networks in files: Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Ansible. Technique: review infra changes like application code.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"t5\">5. Observability<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logs (ELK, Loki)<\/li>\n<li>Metrics (Prometheus, CloudWatch)<\/li>\n<li>Traces (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong id=\"t6\">6. A minimal learning path<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Git fluency<\/li>\n<li>One CI pipeline that runs tests<\/li>\n<li>Dockerfile + Compose for your app<\/li>\n<li>Basic metrics\/alerts on production<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>DevOps is not \u201cinstall every tool.\u201d Pick one path end-to-end, then deepen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated August 2026 \u2014 full tutorial restored for this URL. DevOps is the culture and toolchain that lets development and operations ship software faster with &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algorithms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}